On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Blackmail wrote:
> [Personal favorite, if you can forgive the Mammonism, is that the
> New Yorker
> publishes what I consider their attempt at sensationalism...and
> then they
> don't have comments on the blog page, you know, to harness the traffic
> that's pounding the I Love Music page. Then I mumble something
> about print
> media wanting to survive as things go online...]
No comments? Zounds! Are there any comments on the vast web that aren't stupid or witless or indulgent or trivial? Even Gawker, which auditions commenters and "executes" the duds, sports some pretty pathetic dialogue. The Nation's comments are deeply idiotic. The comments usually point up how much better professional writers are at writing than the peanut gallery. You know of exceptions?
Doug